Fiorina attacks Clinton on women's rights

Carly Fiorina tore into Hillary Clinton during her speech Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, D.C., lambasting the former secretary of state over recent reports that the Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from foreign governments during her tenure at Foggy Bottom.

“Mrs. Clinton, name an accomplishment,” she said of Clinton’s time in the Obama administration. “And in the meantime, please explain why we should accept that the millions and millions of dollars that have flowed into the Clinton Global Initiative from foreign governments doesn’t represent a conflict of interest.”

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The former Hewlett-Packard executive said that Clinton doesn’t walk the talk — or the tweets — when it comes to women’s rights, a subject that is expected to be a key plank of Clinton’s candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“She tweets about women’s rights in this country and takes money from governments that deny women the most basic human rights,” Fiorina said. “She tweets about equal pay for women but won’t answer basic questions about her own offices’ pay standards — and neither will our president. Hillary likes hashtags. But she doesn’t know what leadership means.”

The U.S. needs leaders, not managers, she said, slamming the Obama administration’s strategy on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Clinton’s testimony on the 2012 attack on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

“When the Egyptians bombed targets in Libya in response to the beheading of 21 Christians, this administration stood silently by and would neither ‘condemn nor condone’ Egypt’s forceful response,” she said. “This is not leadership. Nor is it leadership when Secretary Clinton asks: ‘What difference does it make?’ when our embassy is deliberately attacked by terrorists and four Americans are murdered. It makes all the difference in the world and the required response has never come.”

When asked about what kind of candidate Republicans need to nominate in 2016, Fiorina hinted that she might have an advantage as a woman going up against Clinton.

“If Hillary Clinton had to face me on a debate stage, at the very least she would have to have a hitch in her swing,” she said, to cheers.

Clinton wasn’t the only Democrat she slammed.

Fiorina, who spoke between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, also criticized Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, whom she called “dead wrong” on how to end crony capitalism.

“You see, whether it is Dodd-Frank, Obamacare or net neutrality, all this government complexity means the big get bigger, the small disappear, and the powerless are trapped,” she said .